"I must do something or I shall wear my heart away..."

"And a beautiful world we live in, when it is possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only possible, but done-- done, see you!-- under that sky there, every day."

"Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people."

"I never could have done what I have done, without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one object at a time."

"Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!"

"[Credit is a system whereby] a person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay."

"Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule."

"For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself."

"A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man."

"The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists."

"My advice is, never do to-morrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time. Collar him!"

"I am what you designed me to be.I am your blade. You cannot now complain if you also feel the hurt"

"I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me."

"Think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you."

"Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule."

"Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show."

"There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair."

"A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self."

"So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise."

"It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded."

"Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood."

"Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade."

"You are in every line I have ever read."

"It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade."